impossibility

Example Sentences

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For the Kim family, whose parents are immigrants to the United States, han is exacerbated by the pressure to assimilate alongside the impossibility of ever doing so.

From Los Angeles Times

With each manicured frame and deceptively poignant observation on the impossibility of living normally in modern life, Kramer concocts an original, wonderfully empathetic study of the desire to play spectator to a world on fire.

From Salon

It was a day of impossibilities, so why was this any different?

From Literature

He saw the pity in Kenny’s eyes and knew the young man thought grief was making him grasp at impossibilities.

From Literature

Faced with such challenges and the occasional impossibility of deploying a team on the ground, "we adapt, we use technology—artificial intelligence, drones, satellite imagery" to investigate and document human rights violations, he added.

From Barron's